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Carl Phillips

Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library

October 28, 2024, 5:00 PM

Carl Phillips is the author of 16 books of poetry, most recently Scattered Snows, to the North (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2024) and Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022), which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. Phillips’s other honors include the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, and awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Library of Congress. Phillips has also written three prose books, most recently My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing (Yale University Press, 2022). After over thirty years teaching at Washington University in St. Louis, Phillips lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.